“… [I]n the absence of sensory information, the imagination always tends to the grotesque.”
Patrick McGrath
I’ve been doing a little cleanup in my Inventory, and found this gown. It’s vintage now, along with the hair and fur, but worth sharing in some photos.Read the rest of this entry »
I discovered this exhibition at LEA9 while searching for a place to pose. This area, put together by Suzen JeweL, shows ideas from her creativity, including song lines engraved into the ground at several spots. It’s colorful, and surreal enough to fit the costume I’m modeling.
I don’t know what this says about me, but I love a lot of the vinyl goodies from r2, which I usually pick up at Collabor88. Harper and I chose r2 when we started putting together the look for Caja, a character from a story I’m working on. I gotta say I’ve fallen in love with Caja’s half-alien, half-elegant, half-demonic style. (Wait, that’s 150%, isn’t it? LOL)
This outfit comes from the current Collabor88. I left off the boots that come with it, though, because Caja likes ultra-platform heels, and the boots made for the suit (separate purchase) weren’t tall enough. Lucky for me, there’s other shoe stores who’ve got sole, and these boots from Moda were in my Inventory.
I’d also like to find more places — any places, really — who are making new “extreme” hair. Fortunately, Griddie’s hair from several years ago is still on the Marketplace, and this Lily hairstyle from my first time in front of the camera had a platinum shade.
October’s here! Time to start getting in gear for Halloween, and I’ve got just the thing here. I was going to just publish these on Flickr, but at least a few of them are pretty decent; so I’ll do the same thing here as I did on there, publish them with text beneath to explain each scene in my story. It’s definitely a first for me, I’m not sure what Harper would have to say about this one. But if she can publish her stuff on here, so can I, and she’s been encouraging me to. You get to judge how I do.
Fair warning disclosure — there’s a lot of large pictures here. Have patience if it takes a little for them to load, please.
You can see the entire original collection in full size in the album on Flickr (aside from several I’m adding in here to help bulk out the collection, or that I reshot with Conan to improve things).
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Tholosa the Exalted, the Witch-queen of the Empire of Oshor Chih — known not as The Exalted by her enemies, but as Tholosa of the Grave — takes her ease in her palace’s apartments, beneath a statue of one of the strange gods she worships. Even in the gloom of her rooms, this strange woman, who has conquered and absorbed into her empire kingdom after kingdom, glows with a shell of power. This encourages her unlettered slaves to believe in her as a goddess, and puts to use the undesirable effect of all the sorcerous protections she has cast about her in self-defense.
Second Life® with Harper, Conan, Jem, Diana and Morgan
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